FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, and user-friendly image browser, converter, and editor. It offers a robust suite of features, including image viewing, management, side-by-side comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, and comprehensive color adjustment tools—making it highly suitable for users seeking the best lightweight photo viewer and organizer for Windows with advanced editing features.
Its innovative yet intuitive full-screen mode provides immediate access to EXIF data, a thumbnail browser, and essential functions through hidden toolbars that appear when the mouse reaches the edges of the screen. Additional capabilities include a high-quality magnifier, a musical slideshow creator with more than 150 transitional effects, lossless JPEG transitions, drop-shadow effects, image annotation tools, scanner support, histogram display, and more.
FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA. It handles RAW formats, including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, and DNG, delivering a useful range for casual users and pro photographers.
FastStone Image Viewer Features:
- True Full-Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
- Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
- Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels, etc.
- Eleven resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
- Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
- Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
- Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals, and callout objects on images
- Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
- Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with a completely natural-looking result
- Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
- One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
- Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
- Histogram display with color counter feature
- Compare images side by side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots.
- Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
- Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
- Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV…)
- Create efficient image attachments for emailing to family and friends
- Print images with full layout control
- Create fully configurable Contact Sheets
- Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
- Acquire images from the scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG
- Versatile screen capture capability
- Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control the generated file size
- Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
- Offer a portable version of the program that can be run from a removable storage device
- Support dual-monitor configurations
- Configurable mouse wheel support
- Support multiple program skins
- Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
- And much more…
What’s New in FastStone Image Viewer 8.3 :
- Fixed a bug in Draw Board where drawing lines and arrows could create unwanted pixel noise
Official Homepage – https://www.faststone.org
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
